EP2133730A1 - Charnière pour lunettes, élément décoratif pour la charnière de lunettes, et élément d'articulation pour une charnière de lunettes - Google Patents

Charnière pour lunettes, élément décoratif pour la charnière de lunettes, et élément d'articulation pour une charnière de lunettes Download PDF

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EP2133730A1
EP2133730A1 EP09162235A EP09162235A EP2133730A1 EP 2133730 A1 EP2133730 A1 EP 2133730A1 EP 09162235 A EP09162235 A EP 09162235A EP 09162235 A EP09162235 A EP 09162235A EP 2133730 A1 EP2133730 A1 EP 2133730A1
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Rinaldo Montalban
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Visottica Industrie SpA
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02C—SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS SPECTACLES; CONTACT LENSES
    • G02C5/00—Constructions of non-optical parts
    • G02C5/22—Hinges
    • G02C5/2218—Resilient hinges
    • G02C5/2236—Resilient hinges comprising a sliding hinge member and a coil spring
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02C—SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS SPECTACLES; CONTACT LENSES
    • G02C11/00—Non-optical adjuncts; Attachment thereof
    • G02C11/02—Ornaments, e.g. exchangeable
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02C—SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS SPECTACLES; CONTACT LENSES
    • G02C2200/00—Generic mechanical aspects applicable to one or more of the groups G02C1/00 - G02C5/00 and G02C9/00 - G02C13/00 and their subgroups
    • G02C2200/30—Piston

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  • the present invention concerns a hinge for spectacles, an articulation element, and a decorative element for the hinge, whether the latter is the elastic type or the simple type, able to connect a temple to a lug, or a front piece, of a frame for spectacles.
  • Hinges are known, of the elastic type and also of the simple type, which articulate to each other a temple and a lug or front-piece of a frame, allowing to maintain an adequate pressure on the user's temples in order to improve wearability.
  • Traditional hinges generally consist of two articulation elements pivoted to each other and mounted, respectively, the first on the temple and the second on the lug or front-piece of the frame for spectacles.
  • Each articulation element is preferably made of metal material, or plastic.
  • hinges for spectacles are known in which each articulation element comprises anchoring means on its lower surface, for example an anchor, and also hinges for spectacles in which each articulation element is welded, or at least partly drowned in the relative temple or on the relative lug or front-piece of the frame.
  • Hinges for spectacles are known in which the various components have external surfaces, or shapings, structured so as to identify the distinctive signs.
  • Hinges are also known for spectacles which include portions on which the distinctive signs are made by laser incision.
  • hinges made using traditional technologies when it is the articulation elements themselves that define with their shape the desired distinctive sign, there must be provided, on each occasion, specific design and working steps, with high production costs and goods on hand.
  • Purpose of the present invention is to achieve a hinge for spectacles on which ornaments, trademarks, logos or other distinctive signs are made, which is easy and economical to make, which guarantees an optimum final aesthetic result, and which does not entail high production costs and goods on hand.
  • the Applicant has devised, tested and embodied the present invention to overcome the shortcomings of the state of the art and to obtain these and other purposes and advantages.
  • a hinge for spectacles according to the present invention comprises at least two articulation elements pivoted to each other and mounted respectively on a temple and on a lug or front-piece of a frame for spectacles.
  • the hinge comprises at least a decorative element, independent, associated with at least one of the articulation elements.
  • the decorative element is conformed so as to define at least an attachment seating conformed in a standardized manner, and able to house inside it at least a coordinated part of the body of the articulation element, so as to define the structural attachment of the decorative element to the articulation element.
  • the decorative element also comprises at least a functional aperture made in correspondence with a functional component of the articulation element and conformed so as to allow the operating movements of the functional component, without interfering with the normal use of the hinge.
  • functional element we mean an eyelet, an elastic slider, an anchor, an attachment surface, or any other part or component, which achieves or participates in the pivoting and/or correct functioning of the hinge.
  • the hinge for spectacles comprises at least a decorative element distinct and independent from the relative articulation element, and is able to be attached on each occasion to the latter so as to define the relative decoration of the spectacles.
  • the standardized conformation of the attachment seating consequently allows to achieve articulation elements for the hinge having correspondingly standardized shapes and sizes.
  • the decorative element is conformed externally to define one or more signs identifying the product or the producer.
  • the decorative element has, at least partly, an external conformation identifying the product and/or the producer, peripherally defining trademarks, designs, logos or alphanumerical signs and/or provides the conformation of seatings where the distinctive signs are applied.
  • the present invention also has the advantage that it simplifies the production of the decorative element inasmuch as, since it is independent from the articulation element, it does not require joints, channels, ducts or pivoting operating parts, nor the direct operating housing inside it of pins, elastic sliders, or other.
  • This advantage enables to make the decorative element substantially with a single working pass, or in any case without resumption of operations after the attachment seating and the functional aperture have been made.
  • both the attachment seating and the functional aperture can be made simply, without using expensive and particular mechanical technologies.
  • the decorative element is distinct from the relative articulation element, it can be made in a different material from the articulation element. In this way, it is possible to have decorative elements made of any color or material, for example metal, plastic, wood, rhinestone, ceramic materials, minerals such as precious stones or other.
  • the standardized attachment seating is made on the decorative element in such a manner that, in the assembled condition of the frame, the decorative element is positioned at least partly visible with respect to the relative temple or the relative lug or front-piece.
  • the attachment seating defines first attachment means, such as holes, hollows, grooves or other, with which coordinated second attachment means cooperate, such as screws, pins, ribs or other, made on or associated with the body of the articulation element, so as to define a structural connection between the decorative element and the relative articulation element.
  • first attachment means such as holes, hollows, grooves or other
  • second attachment means such as screws, pins, ribs or other
  • the attachment seating and the body of the articulation element comprise respective surfaces conformed so as to be reciprocally joined with interference or snap-in connection.
  • the attachment seating and the body of the articulation element have respective surfaces able to be reciprocally glued.
  • the attachment seating and the body of the articulation element are reciprocally conformed to be welded or spot-welded together by means of electro welding.
  • the articulation element comprises at least a body made of metal material, whereas the decorative element is made of plastic material, to allow a wider range of possible conformations of the decorative element.
  • both the articulation element and the decorative element are made of metal material.
  • the decorative element is made of aluminum or an alloy thereof, on which an anodizing treatment is then performed in order to form an external protective layer with different characterizing colors.
  • a hinge for spectacles 10 is applied to articulate reciprocally a temple 11 to a lug 12 or to a front-piece of a frame for spectacles.
  • the hinge 10 according to the present invention is the elastic type and is able to allow, apart from the reciprocal rotation of the temple 11 and the lug 12 or front-piece, also an elastic extra-travel on opening, to improve the wearing conditions of the frame.
  • the hinge 10 comprises in a traditional manner two articulation elements, respectively a first 13, associated with the temple 11, and a second 15, associated with the lug 12 or the front-piece.
  • Each articulation element 13, 15 comprises relative hinging eyelets 19 reciprocally pivoted to each other by means of a pin 14, for example a screw.
  • the first articulation element 13 is the elastic type and comprises a box-like body 16 in which an elastic slider 18 is slidingly housed, the latter defining the hinging eyelet 19.
  • the box-like body 16 is normally made of metal material, has a simplified shape, substantially a regular parallelepiped, and has standardized sizes.
  • the box-like body 16 has beveled edges, rounded, or shaped, or tapered, to facilitate coupling with the decorative element 17.
  • the first articulation element 13 also comprises a decorative element 17 preferably made of metal material, but also plastic or other, and provided with an attachment seating 17a, a functional aperture 17b and a decorative portion 17c.
  • the attachment seating 17a is open toward a lower side of the decorative element 17 and has standardized shape and sizes coordinated with those of the box-like body 16, so as to house the latter inside it, in a correlated manner.
  • the attachment seating 17a and the body 16 of the articulation element 13 are reciprocally conformed to be glued.
  • attachment seating 17a and the body 16 of the articulation element 13 are reciprocally conformed to be welded or spot-welded by means of electro-welding.
  • the functional aperture 17b is made open toward a front side of the decorative element 17 and communicates with the attachment seating 17a.
  • the functional aperture 17b is also open toward a lower side of the decorative element 17, so as to allow the box-like body 16 to be inserted from below into the attachment seating 17a.
  • the functional aperture 17b is made in a position such that, in an assembled condition of the box-like body 16 in the attachment seating 17a, it allows the free sliding of the elastic slider 18 with its hinging eyelet 19.
  • the decorative element 17 is attached to the first articulation element 13, without interfering with the members that actuate its elastic pivoting with the second articulation element 15.
  • the decorative portion 17c is disposed visible and, in this case, is made on the opposite side of the decorative element 17 with respect to the attachment seating 17a.
  • the decorative portion 17c is conformed to identify one or more distinctive signs of the product and/or the producer.
  • the distinctive signs identifiable on the decorative portion 17c can be, for example, logos, trademarks, writings, drawings or other, made by etching, silk-screen printing, printed or made in relief on the external surface, or defined by the external shape of the decorative element 17 itself.
  • the attachment seating 17a has standardized shape and sizes, is conformed blind inside the decorative element 17, and communicates with the outside only through the functional aperture 17b.
  • the latter in this case, is open only toward the front side of the decorative element 17.
  • the box-like body 16 with the relative elastic slider 18 is inserted into the attachment seating 17a from the front side through the functional aperture 17b.
  • the attachment seating 17a has standardized shape and sizes, it is open toward the lower side of the decorative element 17, whereas the functional aperture 17b is open only toward the front side of the decorative element 17.
  • the box-like body 16 is inserted into the attachment seating 17a from the lower side of the decorative element 17, whereas the elastic slider 18 is coupled subsequently with the box-like body 16, by means of insertion from the front side through the functional aperture 17b.
  • the attachment seating 17a has standardized shape and sizes, is conformed blind inside the decorative element 17, and communicates with the outside only through the functional aperture 17b.
  • the latter in this case, is open only toward the front side of the decorative element 17.
  • the decorative element 17 comprises on its lower part at least an anchor 25 to anchor to the relative temple 11 or lug 12.
  • the elastic hinge 10 is of the type with a double slider, that is, on the same box-like body 16 two elastic sliders 18 are slidingly associated, with relative hinging eyelets 19.
  • the attachment seating 17a has standardized shape and sizes, correlated to the size and shape of the box-like body 16.
  • attachment seating 17a is open toward the lower side of the decorative element 17, whereas the functional aperture 17b is open both toward the front side and also toward the lower side of the decorative element 17.
  • box-like body 16 comprises two through holes 20, whereas inside the attachment seating 17a two corresponding blind threaded holes are made, not shown here.
  • this solution provides to use two attachment screws 21, threaded in from below through the two through holes 20 and screwed into the relative threaded holes of the attachment seating 17a, so as to consolidate the coupling of the box-like body and the decorative element 17.
  • Figs. 9 and 10 show, in particular, the second articulation element 15 of the elastic hinge 10 in fig. 1 , with which a decorative element 117 is associated, provided with a decorative portion 117c.
  • the decorative element indicated by the reference number 117, comprises the attachment seating 117c of standardized shape and sizes in which the coordinated body 116 of the articulation element 15 is housed.
  • the decorative element 117 in this case also comprises two functional apertures 117b, respectively a first open both toward the upper side and also toward the front side, to allow the functional housing of the hinging eyelet 19 of the first articulation element 13, and a second open laterally to allow the insertion of the pin 14, in the assembly steps of the hinge 10.
  • attachment seating 117a and the body 116 of the articulation element 15 are reciprocally conformed to be glued or welded.
  • the decorative element 117 for the second articulation element 15 comprises three functional apertures 117b, that is, one for the hinging eyelet 19 of the first articulation element 13, and two on opposite sides for the pin 14.
  • the decorative element 17 is conformed so that the box-like body 16 is totally hidden from sight.
  • the functional aperture 17b is sized to allow only the passage and sliding of the elastic slider 18, but it is not possible to see the box-like body 16, which is completely covered by the decorative element 17.
  • the functional aperture 17b has an assembly bevel or lead-in 26, which allows to insert the hinging eyelet into the functional aperture 17b, keeping the decorative element 17 inclined so as to overlap the box-like body 16.
  • the decorative element 17 can be rotated toward the box-like body 16 to couple the latter in snap-in manner in the attachment seating 17a.
  • the box-like body 16 has at the rear a beveled edge 27 to promote and facilitate the snap-in coupling in the attachment seating 17a.
  • the decorative element 117 will be provided with at least two functional apertures 117b, for the functional positioning of the respective two hinging eyelets 19.
  • attachment seating 117a is blind and the relative second articulation element 15 is inserted into it through one of its functional apertures 117b.
  • the decorative element 117 for the second articulation element 15 also has at the lower part, integrated therewith, at least an anchor 25 to anchor to the relative temple 11 or lug 12 of the frame.
  • the attachment seating 17a or 117a and the body 16, 116 of the relative articulation element 13 or 15 comprise respective surfaces conformed so as to be reciprocally joined by interference or snap-in attachment.
  • the decorative portion 17c or 117c provides on the surface at least a housing seating for a trademark, a logo or other distinctive sign of the product and/or producer.
  • the decorative element 17, 117 is made of aluminum or an alloy thereof, and subjected to anodizing.
  • the decorative element 17, 117 is obtained by means of a coining/forging method.
  • the decorative element 17, 117 is obtained by injection molding of metal powders, for example with known techniques such as MIM, PIM or others.

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ITPD20100099A1 (it) * 2010-03-26 2011-09-27 Visottica Ind Spa Cerniera elastica per occhiali

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FR1428548A (fr) * 1965-01-04 1966-02-18 Lunetiers Cottet Poichet Soc D Procédé de fixation d'enjoliveurs sur des montures de lunettes en matière plastique
FR2438279A2 (fr) * 1976-07-15 1980-04-30 Obe Werk Kg Partie male de charniere pour face de monture de lunettes
EP0393808A2 (fr) * 1989-04-17 1990-10-24 Aoyama Gankyo Kabushiki Kaisha Lunettes
US5793464A (en) * 1997-02-06 1998-08-11 Chen; Chin-Lung Eyeglasses frame
FR2781891A1 (fr) * 1998-07-29 2000-02-04 Chevassus Dispositif de fixation d'un element de charniere pour monture de lunettes

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR1428548A (fr) * 1965-01-04 1966-02-18 Lunetiers Cottet Poichet Soc D Procédé de fixation d'enjoliveurs sur des montures de lunettes en matière plastique
FR2438279A2 (fr) * 1976-07-15 1980-04-30 Obe Werk Kg Partie male de charniere pour face de monture de lunettes
EP0393808A2 (fr) * 1989-04-17 1990-10-24 Aoyama Gankyo Kabushiki Kaisha Lunettes
US5793464A (en) * 1997-02-06 1998-08-11 Chen; Chin-Lung Eyeglasses frame
FR2781891A1 (fr) * 1998-07-29 2000-02-04 Chevassus Dispositif de fixation d'un element de charniere pour monture de lunettes

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ITPD20100099A1 (it) * 2010-03-26 2011-09-27 Visottica Ind Spa Cerniera elastica per occhiali

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